Kingsway Hall

MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE KINGSWAY SK 56 SE (north side) 4/52A Kingsway Hall II Public hall. Formerly Miners' Welfare Hall. 1909. For the Bolsover Colliery Company Ltd. Stripped Jacobean Revival style. Brick, partly rendered, with stone dressings. Double pitched Westmorland slate roof. Sill band, linked hood moulds, coped gables with kneelers. Single and 2 storeys. 3 bays wide by 8 bays deep. T-plan. Windows are flush mullioned casements. South front has gabled central bay with rusticated flanking pilasters and beyond, flanking wings. Central pair of round headed half-glazed doors with moulded eared architrave and hood. Single flanking casements. Beyond, single casements. Above, large central round headed mullioned casement with hood, scroll brackets and keystone. Flanked by single casements. Above, central plaque inscribed 'The Bolsover Colliery Company Ltd. 1909'. Buttressed west front has to left, projecting gabled bay and to right, projecting gabled wing. To left, a casement. To its right, 2 round-headed casements and altered casement with C20 door. Beyond, 3 round headed casements. To right again, gabled wing has 2 storey canted bay window with 3 casements on each floor. Above, central leaded cupola with drum and leaded dome with finial. Similar east front has additional door in gabled wing. North gable has central pair of round headed doors with moulded architrave, scroll brackets and hood, and a pair of integral flanking lights. Beyond, single casements. Above, 5 light casement with hood mould. Above again, plaque with wreath. Interior has double return staircase with ramped handrail and paired stick balusters. 2 first floor rooms have large fireplaces with corbelled concrete lintels and polished steel fire hoods with coronet in ring and motto 'Staunch and True'.

Listing NGR: SK5632762162